This dataset and code allows researchers to replicate the analyses in --

Claassen, C. & Magalhaes, P. (2021). Effective Government and Evaluations of Democracy. *Comparative Political Studies*

including all tables and figures in the main paper and supplementary materials. 

These analyses were run under several versions of R (and required packages), but have been checked and verified using the following software/hardware set up:

R version 4.0.0 (2020-04-24)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.7

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
 [1] plm_2.2-3          mvtnorm_1.1-0      psych_1.9.12.31    rgdal_1.4-8        sp_1.4-1           RColorBrewer_1.1-2
 [7] tidyr_1.0.2        arm_1.11-1         MASS_7.3-51.5      texreg_1.37.5      xtable_1.8-4       lme4_1.1-23       
[13] Matrix_1.2-18      lavaan_0.6-5      

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] statmod_1.4.34   zoo_1.8-7        tidyselect_1.0.0 purrr_0.3.4      splines_4.0.0    lattice_0.20-41  vctrs_0.3.0     
 [8] stats4_4.0.0     rlang_0.4.5      nloptr_1.2.2.1   pillar_1.4.3     glue_1.4.0       lifecycle_0.2.0  stringr_1.4.0   
[15] bdsmatrix_1.3-4  coda_0.19-3      miscTools_0.6-26 gbRd_0.4-11      lmtest_0.9-37    parallel_4.0.0   Rcpp_1.0.4.6    
[22] abind_1.4-5      maxLik_1.3-8     mnormt_1.5-6     digest_0.6.25    stringi_1.4.6    dplyr_0.8.5      grid_4.0.0      
[29] bibtex_0.4.2.2   Rdpack_0.11-1    tools_4.0.0      sandwich_2.5-1   magrittr_1.5     tibble_3.0.1     Formula_1.2-3   
[36] crayon_1.3.4     pbivnorm_0.6.0   pkgconfig_2.0.3  ellipsis_0.3.0   assertthat_0.2.1 minqa_1.2.4      httr_1.4.1      
[43] rstudioapi_0.11  R6_2.4.1         boot_1.3-25      nlme_3.1-147     compiler_4.0.0

   